Music: Unity303 - Faithless Society
The whole album seems uplifting without words (well I haven't listened to it all yet.)
Ephesians 5:20-33
20 giving thanks always concerning all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God. 22 Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord, 23 because the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 But just as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives be to their own husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your own wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 in order that He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and blameless. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he that loves his own wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also the Lord does the church. 30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 31 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and to the church. 33 Nevertheless you also individually, let each one love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respect her husband. (2002 English Majority Text Version - Copyright 2002 By Paul W. Esposito)
I'm in a marriage workgroup at Christ for the Nations Church.
We hit on the core of the movie in session two. The success of a marriage is twofold A woman submitting to man in marriage is submission. Submission is NOT subjugation. That is, If you have to ASK for it, then something isn't working and you should be looking at yourself not at your partner.
At the same time, the other side of the equation a man should love his woman as Christ loved the Church... we discussed that at length and it was enlightening. I'm still wrapping my head around that. But I'll say this. We started the discussion with the guys thinking they had the easy part. "I'm the protector."
However, we covered the fact that even though people are so full of rejection of Christ, Christ continues to love us unconditionally. That he gets shut out in the rain year after year, yet he still patiently waits and loves all of us. That's Christ's love. That's how I am to act in marriage.
